Getting organized: Scarves and Purses - Fast & Easy organizing solutions

After looking online for ways to store my ever-growing scarf collection,

I found different ways that scarves can be stored. 

I used to simply keep them in a basket, which resulted in me digging through it in order to find a scarf, resulting in a big mess every time.

I looked at neat ways, like hanging them on a curtain rod, or putting shower curtain rings on a hanger. But the first thing seemed too permanent, and take up too much space, while I worried that using curtain rings on a hanger would make them all shift to one side.

Then I realized I could just simply use a normal clothes hanger and loop the scarves through it.

Takes up hardly any space, and they are easy to find.

Voila, problem solved...

On to my next project: purses.

My purses had a similar problem, they were just piled in a basket.

I found these neat over-the-door hangers on Pinterest,

from an expensive store.

Neat, yes, but I wasn't willing to pay the price...

Until I happened to find the exact same product at Walmart, for way cheaper.

This is a non-permanent solution,

a strap with hooks attached, 

that clips right on the inside of your closet door.

Or outside, if you like to look at your purses ;)

Not exactly a great picture, the lighting in my closet is bad...

You can get a closer look at the product HERE.

(I don't get paid for this, but just like the product...)

There are 18 hooks, but I think it's impossible to use them all.

As my picture shows, I used it for 6 purses...that's about it.

Shared at Sugar Bee Crafts and I heart organizing.

Free Printable Birthday Bubble Wrappers

Bubbles make a great party favor for summer birthdays.

These wrappers fit around a standard size bottle of bubbles.

After I printed them, I just cut them, glued them around the bottle,

and then I covered the labels with clear packing tape to make them water-proof.

Today I am sharing these free printable wrappers with you!

Go HERE to download the free printable PDF-file.

Shared at Somewhat Simple, Tatertots and Jello and Sugar Bee Crafts.

Red, white and blue flowers and pinwheels

I have a ton of pictures on my computer of things I made in the past weeks (or months even).

Just not much time to post them.

But thought I'd share a couple things I made this week...

Some patriotic pinwheel cake toppers.

So simple, but festive and cute...

And some red, white and blue hair clips.

We just disassembled a bunch of plain flowers, and re-assembled them in colorful combinations.

Happy 4th of July!

To my Google Friend Connect Followers

You have probably heard that Google Reader is going away as of July 1.

There are rumors that Google Friend Connect will stop then, too.

So if you want to keep following your favorite blogs, you have to find a different way.

There are other readers available. I really like Bloglovin'.

Once you sign up, you can simply import all blogs that you were following with Google Reader all at once. 

And stay up to date on your favorite blogs.

So to my dear followers:

I hope that you will use Bloglovin', or another reader to stay up to date on my posts!

In the sidebar I added a link (similar to the one pictured above) to make it easier to follow "No time to be bored" on Bloglovin'.

Or, if you prefer to follow me by email, there is that option too in the sidebar.

Thanks so much for following!!

Free Printable Father's Day Card

I had fun creating this card with the help of my daughters.

It was fun for them to come up with words that describe their daddy.

And now they're off to make more :)

You can make your own, but if you're short on time or inspiration,

feel free to use this one!

Click HERE to download the card.

As always: for personal use only!

Shared at Sugar Bee Crafts.

Chevrons & butterflies: Three ways to make a pieced skirt

It has been a long time since I sewed something for my 3 girls.

Although I don't have them wear matching clothes in our normal day to day life, 

it is sort of fun to do occasionally. As long as they'll let me I better enjoy it...

Since I tend to get bored when I make the same thing over and over,

I used three different methods to make their skirts.

I will describe what I did & post a link to a tutorial or pattern for a similar skirt.

I will start with the easiest one:

The basic single layer skirt

This skirt just consists of two strips of fabric sewn together, and after that you just treat it as a if it were one piece of fabric. 

You can follow the directions in this pattern to make the skirt.

The hardest thing was to match up the chevrons at the seam, which was easy...

Next is the double layer skirt.

This one is a little more work, but still pretty basic.

Basically the skirt has 2 layers:

the chevron fabric is the basic skirt,

and there is an extra strip of fabric sewn on top of that.

To create a similar skirt, you can use this layered skirt tutorial.

This works great if the fabric you are using is sort of thin,

and you don't want to line it. 

And last but not least the tiered skirt.

This one was the most time intensive.

Not hard, but ruffling fabric and matching up the tiers is not my favorite thing to do.

However, I thought I could handle one :)

A tutorial for a similar skirt can be found HERE.

Shared at Sugar Bee Crafts, Today's Creative Blog,  girl. Inspired and The 36th Avenue.

Happy World Down Syndrome Day!